'Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits,
the rebels,' he says. 'Because the people who are crazy enough to think
they can change the world are the ones who do.'

Chest for success: The actor slams the phone down on a college campus where he plays a younger Jobs

Drama: The short trailer is the first ever to be released on the social networking site

The new short trailer explores Kutcher in a corn field, setting up an early Apple computer, inspiring an audience and ending looking into a mirror at his older self.

The film, which is released in the U.S. in August, promises a 'dark, honest and uncompromising' look at the colourful creative life of Jobs, who died of cancer in 2011.

According to the film's official synopses, Jobs's life is explored from the 'enthusiasm and self-discovery of his youth' through his
'darkest days, brightest triumphs, and the ultimate power of his drive,
his passions, and his undying will to change everything we thought
possible.'

After founding Apple
Computers at the age of 21, the film explores the dark days where Jobs was
forced out of the company by the board at the age of 30.

Field of dreams: The biopic spans Jobs's creation of Apple taking it to a world conquering success story

Tagline: Kutcher is heard narrating the trailer with Jobs's famous words: 'Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels'

Innovative: The film promises a 'dark, honest and uncompromising' look at the colourful creative life of the late Apple founder

It also explores the time when Jobs heads off to find himself, get married and have children before being brought back into the Apple fold at the age of 42.

Back in January, the film was shown at this year's Sundance Film Festival where it premiered to mixed reviews.

'Apple
failures in JOBS are portrayed as the result of conservative,
backward-thinking executives beholden only to their shareholders,' wrote Casey Newton for CNET. 'The result is that the viewer spends two hours watching cardboard cutouts lose arguments to Ashton Kutcher.'

Snap happy: The film features a star-studded cast Innovator: Josh Gad is part of a cast which includes Dermot Mulroney and Matthew Modine

From high to lows: After founding Apple Computers at the age of 21, the film explores the dark days where Jobs was forced out of the company by the board at the age of 30

Uncanny: The real Steve Jobs pictured back in 19

The Hollywood Reporter's Justin
Lowe was more complimentary. He wrote: 'The filmmakers do fall into the
trap of overly sentimentalising a widely beloved public figure who
represents an enormous cultural significance.

'At
the same time, however, they keep the movie frequently engaging, an
indication of their studious dedication to the project about a man who
arguably changed the habits and communication methods of the world's
population more than any other.'

Kutcher, for his part, has said he tried to bring the ordinary to a man who achieved extraordinary things.

'Jobs was an extraordinary guy, but a very ordinary guy in many
ways,' he toldEsquire magazineearlier
this year. 'There was this one speech that I found where he said, "So
when you grow up, if you spend your life trying not to bounce into
walls, just inheriting what you get, you gotta know your life can be a
lot broader than that."

'Once you realise one simple thing: Everything
around you that you call life was made by people who are no smarter than
you. And you can change it. You can influence it. You can build your
own things that other people can use.'

'And I heard that and I knew
exactly what the niche for making the movie was, what the social need
for making the movie was. For people seeking purpose.

'I remember growing
up and looking at the world and going, "Okay, how do I live in this?
instead of How do I create it? How do I build it? How do I make
something?" And the empowerment of these ideas, I think they make an
important story.'

Biopic:
The film covers Jobs's life from 1971 to 2001 and the triumphant
unveiling of the iPod, the trailer begins with Kutcher dropping out of
college

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